Endogenous opioids encode relative taste preference

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1220-1226

  Taha, Sharif A ^a,b   Norsted, Ebba ^a,b   Lee, Lillian S ^a,b   Lang, Penelope D ^a,b   Lee, Brian S ^a,b   Woolley, Joshua D ^a,b   Fields, Howard L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Food intake; Nucleus accumbens; Opioids; Palatability; Rat; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

NALTREXONE; OPIATE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUGAR INTAKE; TASTE PREFERENCE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONSUMMATORY BEHAVIOR; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCES; MALE; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OPIOID PEPTIDES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUCROSE; TASTE;

EID: 33747613747     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04987.x     Document Type: Article

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